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Supreme Court Strikes down N. Carolina’s Racial Gerrymander

TeleSur | - - Ultra-conservative Justice Clarence Thomas sided with four liberal justices in the 5-3 majority decision. Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down North Carolina's congressional map. The court found the…

Even Conservative SCOTUS can’t Stomach N Carolina Voter Suppression

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | - - North Carolina's Voter ID Law Meets 'Its Much-Deserved Demise' Decision by U.S. Supreme Court not to review appeals court decision on 2013…

Dear Rep. King: Our Civilization isn’t White and American Babies aren’t Other

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Rep Steve King of Iowa (whose constituents should be ashamed to show their faces in public went full-on racist again, supporting hate-speech master…

It’s Racism, Stupid. America’s Persistent Racial Wealth Divide

By Josh Hoxie | ( Inequality.org ) | - - A new study shows the legacy of racism far outweighs individual financial decisions in driving the growing gap between black and white…

Would Trump let Oscar Winner Mahershala Ali back into the Country?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Mahershala Ali, 43, last night won an Oscar for best supporting actor, in Moonlight . The film treats themes of sexual repression, gayness,…

5 Images that refute Trump’s attack on Hero John Lewis

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - It began when Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) announced that he would not attend the inaugural of Donald J. Trump because he did not…

Obama’s Farewell Address: Racial Discrimination a Challenge Ahead

NBC | (Video Report) | - - "As President Barack Obama's time in office comes to a close, he delivers his Farewell Address from Chicago." President Barack Obama's Farewell Address (Full Speech)…

Trump won b/c we Let ourselves be Divided & Conquered: Standing Rock was the Opposite

By David Korten | Yes! Magazine ) | - - We’ve been pitted against each other for too long. Now is the time to come together to fix our corrupt political systems.…

Sorry, Garrison Keillor: Keith Ellison for President could have beaten Trump, and still Can

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - I am a fan of Garrison Keillor, of "Prairie Home Companion" fame. I am also a fan of Keith Ellison (D-MN), the prominent liberal…

Neofascist Roof will conduct own defense in Murder Trial

TeleSur | - - Roof allegedly shot and massacred nine African-American churchgoers. Dylann Roof, the white supremacist charged with shooting up a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine parishioners, was…

Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina

By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - 'Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken away,' says Rev. William Barber II of…

Black Mississippi Church Burned, Vandalized with ‘Vote Trump’

TeleSur | - - Hopewell Baptist Church is damaged by fire and graffiti in Greenville, Mississippi, U.S., Nov. 2, 2016. An online fundraising campaign was also set up to help the church…

Marvel’s New Black Panther Comic – Q&A With Author Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates | (The Atlantic Video) "The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates visited Fantom Comics in Dupont Circle, Washington DC to take questions from fans about his work on the new run of Marvel's…

Black Lives Matter Protests in Palestine

TeleSur | - - BLM argued that police violence and killings against Black people in the U.S. are connected to the decades-long Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Activists from the Black Lives Matter…

After Yawning Racial Divide exposed in US, Peace Protests Continue

After Yawning Racial Divide exposed in US, Peaceful Protests Continue

TeleSur | - - Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured defiantly into streets across the U.S. this weekend, shutting down highways, bridges and roads, chanting, praying, cheering and throwing rocks, Molotv cocktails…

Kurdish Women Fighting ISIL Send Solidarity to BlackLivesMatter

TeleSur | - - "You are among the most radical voices in today's racist, sexist, capitalist world," the YPJ wrote to Black Lives Matter. Fighters from the Kurdish Women's Defense Units or…

8,124 Murders by Firearm in US vs. 29 (144 equiv.) in UK

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Revised The United States continues to be peculiar in handing out powerful magazine-fed firearms to almost anyone who wants one and not requiring…

Other Acts of Terror get Media Anniversaries, but not White Terrorists like Dylann Roof

By Bryan van Hulst Miranda | ( TeleSur) | - - A year after Roof was charged over the mass-killing of nine Black people in an African Methodist church, it is worth…

Muhammad Ali Understood the Racist Roots of War and Militarism: And he called them out fearlessly.

By Phyllis Bennis | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - With all the discussion and debate these days about intersectionality and the need for progressives to link our movements against racism…

Trump’s Politics of Whiteness and the CIA tip that Jailed Nelson Mandela

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency provided the tip to the Apartheid South African government that led to Nelson Mandela's arrest should…